whist
Sign in to saveWhist is a classic English trick-taking card game that was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play.
Key facts
- Card game.title
- Whist
- Card game.image_link
- 200px
- Card game.image_caption
- A 19th-century whist marker by the British printing Co. De La Rue
- Card game.type
- Trick-taking
- Card game.players
- 4
- Card game.play
- Clockwise
- Card game.card_rank
- A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
- Card game.num_cards
- 52
- Card game.deck
- French
- Card game.origin
- England
- Card game.related
- Bridge
- Card game.playing_time
- 30 min
- Card game.random_chance
- Medium
- Card game.skills
- Tactics, strategy
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Rules
- Shuffling and dealing
- Play
- Scoring
- Basic tactics
- Terminology
- Variants
- <span class="anchor" id="Auction Whist"></span><span class="anchor" id="Auction whist"></span><span class="anchor" id="auction whist"></span> Auction whist group
- Boston group
- Classic whist group
- Exact bidding group
- Whists for other numbers of players
- Other games called 'whist'
- <span class="anchor" id="whist drive"></span> Whist drive
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game that was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play.
== History == thumb|right|260px|Drawing by Marguerite Martyn for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a session of the Women's Whist Club Congress, April 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri
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